American Authors and Approved Works

  1. James Baldwin
  2. John Barth
  3. Saul Bellow
  4. Willa Cather
  5. John Cheever
  6. *Pat Conroy
  7. *Don DeLillo
  8. E.L. Doctorow
  9. John Dos Passos
  10. Theodore Dreiser
  11. Louise Erdrich
  12. *William Faulkner
  13. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  14. Ernest Gaines
  15. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  16. Ernest Hemingway
  17. John Irving
  18. Henry James
  19. William Kennedy
  20. Barbara Kingsolver
  21. Nella Larsen
  22. Sinclair Lewis
  23. Bernard Malamud
  24. Cormac McCarthy
  25. N. Scott Momaday
  26. Toni Morrison
  27. Joyce Carol Oates
  28. Tim O’Brien
  1. Walker Percy
  2. Chaim Potok
  3. *Thomas Pynchon
  4. Ayn Rand
  5. Phillip Roth
  6. Jane Smiley
  7. *John Steinbeck
  8. William Styron
  9. Anne Tyler
  10. John Updike
  11. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  12. Alice Walker
  13. Edith Wharton
/ Go Tell It on the Mountain, Another Country
Lost in the Funhouse, The Sot-Weed Factor
The Adventures of Augie March, Humboldt's Gift, Dangling Man, The Victim
My Antonia, O Pioneers!
The Wapshot Chronicle, The Wapshot Scandal, Falconer
The Prince of Tides, The Great Santini, Lords of Discipline
Underworld, White Noise
Ragtime, World’s Fair, Billy Bathgate
U.S.A (trilogy), Manhattan Transfer
Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy
Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, Tracks (part of a tetralogy)
The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, Light in August
Tender is the Night, The Beautiful and the Damned, The Last Tycoon
A Lesson Before Dying, Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Of Love and Dust
The House of the Seven Gables, The Marble Faun, The Blythedale Romance
A Farwell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises
The World According to Garp, The Cider House Rules, The Hotel New Hampshire
The Turn of the Screw, Daisy Miller, The American
Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game, Ironweed
The Poisonwood Bible, The Bean Trees, Pigs in Heaven, Animal Dreams
Quicksand, Passing
Main Street, Babbitt
The Natural, The Assistant, The Fixer
All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, The Road
House Made of Dawn, The Way to Rainy Mountain
The Bluest Eye, Sula, Jazz, Song of Solomon
A Garden of Earthly Delights, Them, We Were the Mulvaneys
Going After Cacciato, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home, In the Lake of the Woods
The Moviegoer, Lancelot, The Second Coming
My Name is Asher Lev, The Promise, I Am the Clay, The Chosen
V, The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow
Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Anthem
American Pastoral, The Human Stain
A Thousand Acres, Moo, Barn Blind
The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Cannery Row
Sophie’s Choice, Lie Down in Darkness, The Confessions of Nat Turner
The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Breathing Lessons
Rabbit Trilogy (includes Rabbit Run)
Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle
The Color Purple, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian
The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, The Custom of the Country